Damaris

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of the Greek name Δαμαρις (Damaris)

Probably derived from Greek δαμαλις (damalis) = 'calf' [1]

Related Names

Damaris
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Damaris
Genitive: Damaris'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Damaris
Genitive: Damariksen
Partitive: Damarista
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Damaris
Genitive: Damaris'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Damaris
Genitive: Damaris' / Damaris

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

Damaris is mentioned in the New Testament as being converted to Christianity by St. Paul

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 72 people were named Damaris (percentage of first or only given name: 18 %) [2]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[3]
31 81 31 81 0 0
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
72
n.a.
72 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
20
n.a.
20
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[6]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
19
n.a.
19
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Damaris.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  7. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/